Last week, week and a half ago, there was a terrorist attack in Kashmir.
Islamic terrorists killed 26 tourists in Kashmir. And there's a chilling video coming out of that. I don't know if you've seen this, it's a viral video of a tourist on a zipline. He's on this zipline, and while he's on this zipline, the attacks begin. He doesn't know what's going on around him.
He just has a go-pilot. And he's cheering. He's having a good time. Thumbs up.
This is great. And you can literally see bodies dropping all around him. And when he finally gets to the end of the line, he starts hearing the pop, pop, pop of the guns. And he knows something's going on.
I saw that, and it reminded me of the American church. There's a war going on around us. There's attacks going on around us. There's a spiritual struggle going on around us. But we're going to cheer. And we're singing our songs. And we're having a good time. And we want some encouraging, uplifting sermons on how to have a better life. And we're oblivious to the fact that there's wars going on all around us in the spirit realm.
And y'all are saying, ah, here he goes again, Pastor Chad, with that crazy demon stuff that he likes to talk about. I don't think we understand what's really going on around us. There's a war going on around us.
So I only have two points today. Number one, we're involved in a war. That's number one. And number two, prayer and praise are some of your most powerful weapons in that war. And so I want you to look at Acts chapter 16.
We're in a war. We see this in Acts 16, verse 16. This takes place in the city of Philippi.
My wife and I were just there about this time last week in the ruins of Philippi. In Acts 16, 16, Luke is writing, and he says this, now it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a servant girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune telling. Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out saying, these men are slaves of the Most High God. They're proclaiming to you the way of salvation. And she continued doing this for many days, but being greatly annoyed, Paul turned and said to the Spirit, I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to leave her, and it left her at that very moment. I want you to look at verse 16. Luke says this happened as we are going to the place of prayer. That's not coincidental. Satan sees that these men of God are going to the prayer closet, and Satan knows if they get to the prayer closet, he's finished.
There's something about men and women. Women of God getting to the place of prayer that absolutely terrifies Satan. And that's why, have you ever noticed before, you don't really get sleepy until you start praying, and all of a sudden you get sleepy. Or I'm going to get up tomorrow, and I'm going to start praying for 10 minutes a day, and you get up, and there's some distractions.
That isn't coincidental. Satan will do whatever he can to try to get you out of that prayer closet. Let me say this for those of you who say, I try to pray. This is going to help you.
This is going to help you a lot right here. I try to pray. I try to pray in the morning, and about 50% of the time I fall asleep and I feel so guilty.
Don't feel guilty. What father doesn't love to see his children fall asleep in his arms? Sometimes the father delights in the fact that you just got up and tried to get in his presence, and you fell asleep, and that's okay. He loves you.
He just wants you to be in his presence. And so they're going to the place of prayer, and so Satan attacks. Verse 16, he attacks through a servant girl who made money by fortune telling. Now, verse 16 says, through a spirit of divination. That's not a good translation.
None of the major versions get this right. It's not a spirit of divination. Here's what it says in the Greek. She was a fortune teller through the spirit of Python. That's what it says, the Python spirit.
Who's the Python spirit? Well, in the days of Paul, there was a famous place called the Temple at Delphi, or Delphi. We were there last week. Here's the ruins of the Temple at Delphi. Beautiful place in Greece. People come from all over the world to this temple.
They pay a lot of money. This old lady in the temple would go into a trance, start speaking gibberish. A pagan priest would interpret that gibberish, and they would predict the future.
I made a lot of money there. And historically, they say at the Temple of Delphi, the Greeks would say, how does this lady do it? How does she go into a trance and predict the future? They said it was by the spirit of Python. The same demon spirit that operates at the Temple at Delphi is the same demonic spirit that is now operating in this young girl.
Do you see what I'm saying? It's a happenstance. This is not just an encounter they have.
No, no. They actually have an encounter with a demon spirit named Python. And it says this. The demon attacks Paul, Silas, Luke. They're getting a little bit irritated because Satan is attacking in an ingenious way. Do you notice how they are attacking? They are attacking through the truth.
The apostle Paul and Silas are sharing the gospel message, and this demon spirit is saying, amen, amen. They got it. Y'all listen to them. They're great.
They're great. It doesn't make any sense, does it? Do you see what I'm saying? Paul and Silas are preaching the gospel, and the demon inside of this girl is going, amen, amen.
Y'all listen to them. They're gonna show you the way of salvation. And it says Paul is annoyed. That is a common tactic that Satan uses to attack in the body of Christ.
I'm about to say something. I love it when you amen me. I want you to amen me. Because if you misunderstand what I'm about to say, you're gonna be like, well, I shouldn't amen in church. They say, saying amen to a preacher is like saying sickum to a dog. So amen me, keep doing it. Y'all don't do it enough. You should say amen to that. Amen. But every now and then, somebody goes off the rails.
They start taking the attention off of Jesus and the word of God and start putting attention on themselves. I've had that before. I remember a guy sitting right where you're sitting, actually. There might be a demon in that chair. You may want to move over a little bit.
He was sitting right there. Our church had your passion. Here's what I said. Could you tone it down a little bit? Here said to me, who do you think you're talking to? I'm gonna do what I want to do.
You can't tell me what to do. That's a demon spirit right there. Whenever you have to say to somebody, can we tone it down just a little bit and they go off the rails? That's a demon spirit. That's what Paul is dealing with here. He's dealing with a demonic spirit that is distracting through the voice of this individual.
So what does he do? Look at verse 19. He casts the demon out of this girl. The demon leaves. And when the demon leaves, the money leaves.
Because her master's made a lot of money by this demon spirit in her predicting the future. Now that the demon is gone, their ways of making money is gone. Verse 19. But when her master saw that their hope of profit had left, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the marketplace before the authorities. And when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, these men are throwing our city in confusion, being Jews, that's interesting, a little bit of anti-Semitism there, and are proclaiming customs that are not lawful for us to accept or observe being Romans. And the crowd joined together to attack them and the chief magistrates, tearing their garments off of them, proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods. Any wounds, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely, who having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse 25.
But about midnight. This young lady are evidently high-standing citizens in that town. They said, let me explain something to you, county commissioners. We bring a lot of money from that young lady, and we give a lot of taxes from that profit.
When our money is gone, your tax revenue is gone. C-O-R-S. Their job was to take hardened sticks, and when the city officials said, beat that man, they'd beat that man. Sometimes they would crack vertebrae, sometimes they would crack ribs, sometimes they'd give concussions, sometimes they went a little bit overboard and they would kill people. That's what happens to Paul and Silas right there. These light cars take the sticks, the county commissioners say, they've cast the demon out of this girl, money is gone, beat them, and they start beating them. It's interesting. The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11, 25, this isn't the only time this happened to me.
Three times I've gotten a fire beat out of me by these kind of people. So we're not sure what's happening to Paul. His teeth may be missing, they may have smacked his teeth out of his head. He may have had a concussion, he may have some cracked ribs, and now they take Paul and Silas and they throw him into a prison. We actually went to that prison this past week.
Here's a picture of that. There's an old cistern there in Philippi that they have found, and archeologists say that this is probably the inner part of that prison where Paul and Silas were thrown into after being beaten. Well, as confinement. What they would do is they would spread the men's legs out so far till they're about to be popped out of joint, put them into these two holes, and put them in chains, and so they're not just sitting there in stocks, comfortably sitting there waiting for their trial. Their legs have been spread to the point that they're almost popped out of sockets.
So let's keep this in mind. They've been beaten big time. They may have cracked ribs. They are being tortured in these stocks. You ever have one of those days when nothing went right for you?
That's what's going on right here with these guys. In verse 25 it says, but about midnight. The Bible doesn't just give us details just to give us details. There's something symbolic about midnight. It's the darkest time.
It's the bleakest time. I think what Luke is trying to tell us in this passage is there is darkness all around them. There's darkness in the demon that they cast out. There's darkness in the hearts of these local officials.
It's physically dark at night. It's this darkness against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is a satanic, demonic attack that Paul and Silas are dealing with. How do they handle this dark, satanic attack? Verse 25.
But about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying singing hymns of praise to God. They're in the innermost part of this prison. They've had to deal with demons. They've had to deal with beatings.
They've now had to deal with these stocks that are about to pull their hips out of joint. What are they doing? They are singing, they are praising, and they are praying. It's prayer and praise together.
Let me ask you something. Have you ever had a hard time, maybe it happens every day, you have a hard time getting into prayer? Like you know you're supposed to pray, you get there, your mind starts wondering, and it takes about 15, 20 minutes just to kind of get in the frame of, anybody have that problem before? Okay, I'm not the only unspiritual person that struggles with this.
Okay. Let me give you right, can I give you the key to getting into a spirit of prayer? It's praise. That's why that verse puts prayer and praise together. In fact, let me give you a verse. It's going to be a great verse right here. I got a verse to go along with that. Isn't it great that when I have an idea, I have a verse to back it up? Let me give you the verse here.
The verse is Psalm 100, verse 4. Enter his gates, his gates, with thanksgiving and his courts with what? Praise. Give thanks to him.
Bless his name. You enter, this is so important. You enter into the presence of God.
Not by running under the prayer closet with your prayer list, I need this done, this done, this done, this done, this done. That's not how you enter his presence. How do you enter his presence? With thanksgiving and praise. That's how you get in his presence.
You're coming back this last week. Every country we went into, we went to Greece, we went to Turkey, came back to America. Every country we went to, we had to go to passport control.
You know what that is? To get into this country, you got to show your passport. And if you don't have that passport, they don't let you into that country. I don't care if you're a senator, I don't care if you're a representative, if you don't have your passport, you can't come into the country.
Listen to me. Praise is your passport into the presence of God. When you get in that prayer closet and you forget about your problems and your challenges and what's going on with you and you just thank God and you praise him and you bless him, that's your passport and God says, come into my country, come into my presence right now. And that's why the Bible puts prayer and praise together right there. So what do they do when they're attacked? Well, they sing praises to God. Do you know how counterintuitive that is?
Do you know how different that is from the way we handle our problems and our challenges? These guys are beaten to within an inch of their life. They're thrown into a prison. They don't know if they're going to be beheaded tomorrow.
And what do they do? They praise God. It's interesting. If you look in the Bible, that is the reaction of great men and women of God throughout history. You've heard of Jonah before?
Jonah, thrown in the ocean, swallowed by a whale. Is he starts reciting the Jewish hymn book. He recites Psalm 120. He recites Psalm 5, Psalm 31, Psalm 69. What does he do when he's going through a tough time? He sings praises to God.
Jesus. Jesus is closing out the Last Supper. The moment he says amen, let's leave, he goes to the Mount of Olives, he will be arrested, beaten, tortured, and executed. What is the last thing he does before he goes into all that mess? It says in Matthew 26, 30, before he goes into all that, it says after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. He's about to go through the most trying time of his life.
What does he do? He sings praises to God. And in fact, we think we know what song he sang before he went out. It was traditional for Jews to sing what's called the Hallel Psalm, Psalm 118. Let me read to you the lyrics of the song Jesus probably sang before he went out and was executed. Psalm 118, one, give thanks to the Lord for his good. His love endures forever. Let Israel say, his love endures forever. Let the house of Aaron say, his love endures forever.
Let those who fear the Lord say, his love endures forever. You are my God. I will praise you. You are my God.
I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord for his good, his love endures forever. Even Jesus, before he goes out and faces the demonic, he sings praises to God.
Are y'all listening to me right now? That is so different than the way we live our lives. We whine, gripe, bellyache, complain, get mad.
And these great men and women of God, when they're attacked and go through a battle, they sing praises to the Lord. There's a book, if you haven't read this book before, get it. Don't read it to your kids. It's called Fox's Book of Martyrs. It's just basically page after page of this guy got his head chopped off. This guy got skinned alive.
This guy was boiled alive. So don't read it to you, okay? They haven't made, I don't think they've made a children's version of Fox's Book of Martyrs yet, okay?
But you read that book. They go throughout the history of the church and have example after example after example of men and women of God. Who were tortured and died and it is amazing how many of them went to their death with hands raised singing praises to God. I'm gonna tell you something.
That right there, praise, it is a powerful weapon. Now I'm not saying anything I didn't say to their face. I said to our worship team, do you know why the first ministry Satan will attack in any church is their praise and worship team? Now part of it is they're a bunch of artsy people and they get emotional.
I get it. But I've talked to pastor after pastor and pastor. I said this, in fact with this past trip I went on with a bunch of pastors from different churches. I said if Satan's gonna attack your church, what's the first ministry he's gonna attack? They said worship ministry.
Why is that? Because Satan knows if I can bring down the prayer and praise in the church, if I can bring down the worship ministry, I have neutralized one of the greatest weapons that church has against me. There's power in praise. How powerful is praise? Praise and worship, particularly when you're going through challenges and difficulty. Well I want you to see what happens when Paul and Silas in the middle of the night haven't beaten to within an inch of their life, their hips are about out of joint in those stocks and they start praising God. I want you to see what happens when they praise. Number one, their praise created an earthquake. Look at verse 26. And suddenly there came a great earthquake so that the foundations of the jailhouse were shaken. I don't have any proof of this.
It's just my gut. I think that physical shaking was just a physical manifestation of a spiritual shaking that went on in hell. As Satan started hearing these men, he tried to suck the wind out of their cells. He tried to totally demoralize them and they refused to take the bait. They start praising God and I think in the realms of hell, Satan got so angry and things began to shake and there was a physical manifestation of the earthquake.
That's just what I think. I like how the old hymn writer from years ago, William Cowper said it. Verse 26, and immediately all the doors were opened and everybody's chains were unfastened. It liberated Paul and Silas.
Praise liberated them. I knew what she was going through because the kids had kind of not been the best kids that morning. We had to fuss with the kids. I know what you're going through, lady dying of cancer, because my kid's a little bit fussy and my car won't start. I go and visit this lady and I'm still grumpy. I'm trying to fake it.
You can only fake it so long. I'm trying to fake being happy, but I'm just irritated. Is it okay for me to tell you?
Sometimes pastors, they get irritated. And I'm there visiting this lady. I said, how are you?
She says, my body's wearing out, but my soul's getting stronger every day. I want to see Jesus. I can't wait to look it upon his face. He's been so good to me. He's never left me.
I can feel his presence right now. Let me ask you something. Who was more liberated at that moment, me or her? She was. I was in prison to grumpiness. She was liberated. Prayer and praise liberate you. How powerful is prayer and praise?
Number one, it created an earthquake. Number two, it liberated Paul and Silas. And then number three, praise, watch this, led people to Jesus. Verse 25.
But about midnight, Paul and Silas were praising, praying and singing hymns of praise to God. And you see this? The prisoners were listening to them. I want you to listen to me, Christian. Our world, they're listening to you. You don't think they're watching? They're watching.
You go through a tough time? Your people at your office, they're listening. They're watching.
You go through a tough time, and everybody at schools knows you're a Christian, and you hit a brick wall? They're like these prisoners. They're listening. And Paul and Silas are not saying, I can't believe they did this to us. This town hasn't heard the last of us.
I want to get me a good lawyer, and we're going to set this thing straight. They didn't do that. They didn't say, well, you know, my cousin went to high school with a DA, and we're going to call the DA, and they're going to make it.
Now, in the end of this chapter, they actually do hold that local government to account for what they did to them. But I want you to understand, at this moment, they're not complaining or griping. They're praising God and everybody else listening to them.
They're not going to harm yourself. We're all here. And he called for the lights and rushed in, trembling with fear, and fell down before Paul and Silas. And look at this. And after he brought them out, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
I want to be like you. I want to have this joy that a prison can't take away. What must I do to be saved? And they said, believe in the Lord Jesus, and you'll be saved, you and your house. And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house.
And he, the jailer, took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all of his household, and he brought them into his house and set food before them and rejoiced greatly with his whole household because they had believed in God. Do you see what's about to happen? This jailer says, I'm going to be killed. This is dereliction of duty. I have one job, and that's to keep these prisoners secure. If the hands have come off, they're all going to run away, and I'm going to be killed. And Paul says, no, no, we're all here.
And he leads this man to the Lord Jesus Christ. One more picture. Here's the ruins of that house. Actually, the ruins of the jailer's house, it's built on top of the prison that I just showed you.
That's what they did in the days. If you were a jailer, your job is you lived up here, and your prisoners were in your basement. And so these are the ruins of that house. Paul and Silas fought their battle God's way. These prisoners hear the gospel. The jailer hears the gospel.
His family hears the gospel, and they all get saved. Let me tell you, if God's given you a Cadillac, praise God. But your Cadillac's not going to draw the law to people to Jesus. God's given you a big promotion. Praise God. But your promotion doesn't draw people to Jesus. What draws people to Jesus is when all hell breaks loose and everything's come against you, but you still raise hands. And you praise the Lord Jesus Christ. That draws people to the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, beloved, I go back to what I said.
I only had two points today. Number one, we are in a war. And number two, one of the greatest weapons of our war is praise. Praise is spiritual warfare. Keep in mind, this whole thing I'm reading about, it started with a satanic attack. Praise is spiritual warfare.
Let's testify to that. Mary Slessor, S-L-E-S-S-O-R, was a missionary who worked in Nigeria for many years. And she was in the most demonic part of Nigeria. I'll tell you how demonic it was. They believed that if a lady had twins, twins were demonic. It was demons that had given you twins.
Anybody here a twin? Raise your hand. You know what they would do? They'd either kill those little babies when they came out of the womb, or they would abandon them out in the woods. And she would go and get these kids that were abandoned. And that's just one example of some of the demonic stuff she had to deal with.
And the devil has to go bye-bye. Spiritual warfare. Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India. She ministered to victims of human trafficking.
I'm telling you, you read some of the stuff she dealt with? It was demonic. It was satanic. Amy Carmichael had this great little saying. She said, quote, I have found that the devil cannot endure it and slips out of the room whenever we sing to the Lord. Praise is spiritual warfare. Martin Luther says, music drives the devil away and makes people happy.
We know that to the demons, music is distasteful and insufferable. I love this quote from Pastor Ray Pritchard. I want you to listen. I don't like to just do quote after quote, but this is a good quote.
Listen to what Ray Pritchard says. He says, quote, music is a weapon of spiritual warfare, and the devil hates it when we sing. He hates our music because our singing is a weapon of spiritual warfare. Our singing rouses our souls, gives us courage, lifts our hearts, restores our faith, builds our confidence, unites our voices, and lifts up the name of the Lord like a mighty banner. Music is not just preparation for warfare. Music is spiritual warfare. When God's people sing together, we invade the devil's territory.
That's powerful. The hell are coming against you, and things don't seem right, and things aren't as you hoped they would be, and you get a little discouraged. You can complain and gripe and bellyache, or you can lift up holy hands and say, no matter what goes on with me, I'm planet Earth. God is good all the time. I bless his name. Holy is the Lord. Paul's day begins with a demonic attack, and it ends with praising God.
Let me close with this. 2 Chronicles 20. There's a man named Jehoshaphat. His army has multiple armies coming against it. Three, maybe four armies are about to enclose his army and slaughter everybody.
Put yourself in a situation. I'm a king responsible for my people, and I've got three or four armies closing in, and they're going to kill us all, and I don't have the manpower or the firepower to overcome them. It says in 2 Chronicles 20, verse 2, a great multitude, a great multitude, is coming against him. How does he fight that battle? How would you fight that battle? You're outgunned and outmanned.
What do you do? Here's how he fought it. Verse 4 of 2 Chronicles 20. He praised him to stand in holy attire, and they went out before the army, saying, give thanks to Yahweh, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Do you see what he did? He says the enemy is coming against us. What do we do? Here's what it says. Get the praise team out here. Get the praise team. Praise team, you go before us, and you start singing praises to God, and that's what they do.
And what happens? When they begin singing for joy and praising God. Yahweh set ambushes against the son of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so they were defeated. Armies come against him. He lifts his hands and praises God, and those armies are defeated. John Piper says this about this passage.
He pointed the use of spiritual songs as an effective weapon against his arch enemy, Satan. Demonic forces are thrown into confusion, and you start praising God. They're like, this don't make no sense. They're supposed to be whining, griping, and getting mad at God. It don't make sense to me. They're praising God, and it makes the demonic confused.
I've been in my heart for about two weeks now. I am convinced there are people in this room right now. You're coming up against some armies. You're coming up against some demonic attacks.
You're coming up against some challenges. There's a war being fought against you. Things aren't going well on the job, in the family. Satan has got his claws into those kids of yours, and they have walked away from the faith, and it's tearing you up. There's some things going on in your mind, some warfare going on, and you're getting tired of the battle. There's some things happening on the job, in your finances, that can't be explained by the natural. It's a supernatural attack against you.
Is there anybody in this place like that? Here's how. I want you to fight those demons, but I want to do it that way. I don't want you to forget about what's going on right now. I don't want you to get mad at God. Complain against God right now.
God, this is unfair. Why didn't you come through for me? I want you to do what Paul and Silas did, what Jehoshaphat and the people of God did. I want you to come and engage in spiritual warfare by lifting up your hands, and lifting up your voices, and calling on the name of the Lord, and praising the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you're going through a battle right now, come down right now.
This is true for the Benson campus, the North Riley campus. If you're going through a battle, come right now. All we're going to do is lift up hands, and lift up voices, and we're going to fight this battle. We're going to fight this battle, but we're going to do it His way, not your way. You've tried it your way.
How's that working out for you? Why don't you lift up hands, and lift up voices, and right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, just start praising God wherever you're at right now. Lift your hands, and start praising the name of the Lord. I want you to thank God for some things He's done in your life. Thank Him. You thank Him for what He's done. You praise Him for who He is.
I want you to do both things. I want you to thank God for what He's done, and I want you to praise Him for who He is. God, thank you. You're a faithful God. You're a good God. You're a loving God. You are almighty. You're all powerful. You are the God of the universe. Jesus, you're the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords. God, you've been so good to me. You've been so faithful to me. Right now, wherever you're at, lift up your hands, and lift up your voices, and let's fight some battles God's way right now.
Would you do that? Just start praising the Lord right now. Just start praising the Lord right now. Bless you, Lord.
Bless you, God. I can't hear you. Lift your voices right now. Just start praising God right now. I want you to praise Him as loud as you've been complaining against Him. That might be good.
It's a good place to start. Praise Him as loud as you've been complaining against Him right now. Bless your name, Holy Lord. Bless you. Bless you.
Bless you. Bless the name of the Lord right now. We praise you, O God.
We exalt you. You are King of Kings. You are Lord of Lords.
You're the God of the universe. You are holy. You are righteous.
You are good. Lift your hands and lift your voices. Let's do some spiritual warfare right now. Let's praise the name of the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I won't be quiet. My God is alive.
How can I keep it inside? Praise the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord. I praise because you're sovereign. Praise because you reign. Praise because you rose and defeated the reign. I praise because you're faithful. Praise because you're true. Praise because there's nobody greater than you.
I praise because you're sovereign. Praise cause you reign, praise cause you rose and defeated the reign I praise cause you're faithful, praise cause you're true Praise cause there's nobody greater than you Praise the Lord, oh my soul Praise the Lord, oh my soul Praise the Lord, oh my soul Praise the Lord, oh my soul I won't, I won't be quiet, my God is alive How can I keep it inside? I won't be quiet, my God is alive How can I keep it inside? I won't be quiet, my God is alive How can I keep it inside? Praise the Lord, oh my soul I'm not trying to sound unsympathetic I'm not trying to sound like I don't have compassion I know the battle is heavy I know there's a lot going on I know sometimes you feel like giving up But you can leave here today with one or two mindsets You can have a pity party Satan loves that Whenever y'all have a pity party He brings bells, whistles, and balloons He loves pity parties But you can leave here as warriors Men and women of the Most High God Who understand this is going to be over soon Jesus is coming back God's still on the throne Hey, which mindset are you leaving with here today? I got to remind you There are two kinds of people in this church There are warriors and there are warriors You are warriors of the Most High God That's who you are So let me speak this over you, warrior, right now Be bold, be strong, don't be afraid And don't be terrified of anything, warrior Why? Because the greatest warrior of the universe Is going to be with you, standing by you Walking with you Everywhere you go this week In the name of the Father and the Son And the Holy Spirit we pray Amen and Amen God bless you, beloved Let's go change this world with Jesus Christ In the name of the Father and the Son
